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H. MORGENROTH & S. LEVISON.

FLOUR SIPTER.

No. 300,722. Patented June 17, 1884.

WITNESSES: 'INVBNTOR ATTORNEYS NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY MORGENROTH AND MARKS S. LEVISON, OF BROOKLYN, N. Y.

FLOUR-SIFTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters PatentNo. 300,722, dated June 17, 1884.

Application filed April 3, 1884. (No model.)

T0 to whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, HENRY'MORGENROTH and MARKS S. LEVISON, both citizens of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Flour-Sifters, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to boxes or canisters for holding flour and other materials of a similar nature; and it consists in the novel features of construction hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a cross-section of a box embodying our invention. Fig. 2 is a bottom view thereof, partly broken away.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts.

The letter Adesignates the body of the box; B, the top and G the bottom thereof, thewhole composed of sheet metal or other suitable material. The top B is hinged and the bottom 0 is loose or detachable, and at a point above the bottom the box is provided with a sieve, D, which is fixed so that the flour or other substance in the box may be discharged through the sieve by properly shaking the box, the meshes of the sieve being sufficiently fine to hold the substance in the box when it is left stationary. In discharging the substance from 0 the box, the bottom 0 may be left on it or taken off, according to the quantity desired, and to facilitate the manipulation of the device both the top and the bottom are provided with a bail or handle, E and F. The 5 bottom 0 is centrally raised to form a cavity,

G, in which the bail F is pivoted, so that it can be turned into the cavity to present an even bottom surface for the device to be supported on a stand or table. 40

What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A flour-sifter consisting of the box-body A, having the'sieve secured thereto, the hinged top B, providedwith a bail, E, and the loose 5 bottom 0, centrally raised to form the cavity G, and provided with a bail, F, adapted to rest within the cavity, substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set 50 our hands and seals in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHAS. WAHLERS. 

